Multitasking Content Creation

MCC Winstone 2004

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:

. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
. Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
. Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
. Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
. Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
. NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
. SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f

As you can see above, Lightwave is part of the MCC Winstone 2004 benchmark suite. As an individual application, Lightwave does manage to get a healthy performance benefit with multithreaded rendering enabled, especially when paired with Hyperthreading enabled CPUs like the Pentium 4s here today. All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004

ICC SYSMark 2004

The first category that we will deal with is 3D Content Creation. The tests that make up this benchmark are described below:

"The user renders a 3D model to a bitmap using 3ds max 5.1, while preparing web pages in Dreamweaver MX. Then the user renders a 3D animation in a vector graphics format."

3D Content Creation SYSMark 2004

Next, we have 2D Content Creation performance:

"The user uses Premiere 6.5 to create a movie from several raw input movie cuts and sound cuts and starts exporting it. While waiting on this operation, the user imports the rendered image into Photoshop 7.01, modifies it and saves the results. Once the movie is assembled, the user edits it and creates special effects using After Effects 5.5."

2D Content Creation SYSMark 2004

The Internet Content Creation suite is rounded up with a Web Publishing performance test:

"The user extracts content from an archive using WinZip 8.1. Meanwhile, he uses Flash MX to open the exported 3D vector graphics file. He modifies it by including other pictures and optimizes it for faster animation. The final movie with the special effects is then compressed using Windows Media Encoder 9 series in a format that can be broadcast over broadband Internet. The web site is given the final touches in Dreamweaver MX and the system is scanned by VirusScan 7.0."

Web Publication SYSMark 2004

Mozilla + Media Encoder

While AMD dominated in WorldBench 5's Mozilla test, encoding a file using Windows Media Encoder in the background not only makes this test more appreciative of the Pentium 4 but also of Hyper Threading.

Multitasking: Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

The Test and Business/General Use Performance Video Creation/Photo Editing
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  • DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    you are correct mike (and you too mjz5)

    :-)
  • DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    You're in luck -- Anand is writing that one personally. In my opinion he's the best there is at explaining technology so that anyone can understand it.

    And we've got "better" pics of cell, but they have boxes and text all over them to tell what block does what ... that's the best "clean" cell pic we've got.
  • mjz5 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    new news!! Nothing new from intel, actually that's not new news :-s...
  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    also, in the Cell picture, i count 8 cache areas, is there 8 sub processors with their own cache and then a main processor that controlls all the others with its own cache (the dark blue on the right, while the light blue is the sub processors cache?)

    MIKE
  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    :-)

    yea, find a better quality pic of the Cell processor. and please use small words that the small ppl like me can understand especially in the Cell article next week. i look forward to it, but dont want to be all confused like i am on a lot of your high tech articles.

    :-D

    MIKE
  • DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    I can only fix 89 broken things at a time :-)

    anything else need tweaking?
  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    nvm post 3, read this post instead

    page 4 = bottom of page 3... fix it.

    I ORDER YOU NOW

    MIKE
  • JustAnAverageGuy - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    It's fun to watch them add the pages one by one :)
  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    wrong graphs on page 4???

    MIKE
  • AtaStrumf - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link

    He, he, no first post for all you first posters >;-)

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